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Graham Cluley • 10 Apr 2014 • 7 min. read
Malware
10 years of Mac OS X malware
Privacy
NSA revelations shake faith in U.S. tech firms as Harris poll shows public conflicted
Privacy, Cybercrime
Heartbleed encryption flaw leaves millions of sites at risk
The malware problem on Mac OS X is nothing like as bad as it is on Windows, but that doesn't mean it can be ignored.
Graham Cluley • 10 Apr 2014
Stephen Cobb • 09 Apr 2014
The Heartbleed bug – a flaw in an encryption technology used to protect major websites including Yahoo – has left a huge amount of private data at risk - and internet giants are scrambling to find fixes for a problem which could leave customer data exposed to criminals.
Rob Waugh • 09 Apr 2014
Malware, Cybercrime
“New weapon” against malware intrusion designed by American student
A new technique for spotting cyber attacks has been designed by a young American student - and could prevent attacks against planes and power plants, by looking for abnormal communications within computers, rather than sifting for malicious software.
Samsung smartphones are security favourite - for adulterers
Samsung is the most popular brand of smartphone among a large portion of the adult population - adulterers, with the Korean handsets chosen by more than half of those conducting secret affairs.
Rob Waugh • 08 Apr 2014
If you love someone, upgrade them from XP
It is us, the nerdy geeks who are into computers, who have a moral right to help the great unwashed, and lead them into a bright new future without Windows XP.
Graham Cluley • 08 Apr 2014
Cybercrime
Swooping robot attack which felled triathlete "may be work of hackers"
Rob Waugh • 07 Apr 2014
Malware, Scams, Cybercrime
“Virus Shield” app is top-selling hit - but does absolutely nothing
Armed with an impressive-looking shield logo, security app Virus Shield shot to the top of the sales charts on Android last week. There was one, tiny, problem: the app was a fake.
Microsoft to fix zero-day flaw that meant just previewing an Outlook email could infect your computer
It's one thing to have a security hole that relies upon users visiting an infected website, or opening a dodgy attachment - but it's quite a different level of threat when simply *previewing* a message in your email client infects your computer.
Graham Cluley • 04 Apr 2014
